The code first options are quite good these days, but you can get so far with make & other legacy tooling. Docker feels like a company looking to sell enterprise software first and foremost, not move the industry standard forward

great article tho!

But the real hidden power of buildkit is the ability to swap out the Dockerfile parser. If you want to see that in action, look at this Dockerfile (yes, that's yaml) used for one of their hardened images: https://github.com/docker-hardened-images/catalog/blob/main/...

BuildKit is very cool tech, but painful to run at volume

Fun gotchya in BuildKit direct versus Dockerfiles, is the map iteration you loaded those ENV vars into consistent? No, that's why your cache keeps getting busted. You can't do this in the linear Dockerfile